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Ottó Tolnai
(Hungary, 1940)
Ottó Tolnai studied Hungarian literature and philosophy in Novi Sad and Zagreb. He belonged to the ethnic Hungarian minority in the former Yugoslavia, where artists and intellectuals enjoyed more freedom of expression than was allowed their counterparts in Hungary. When in 1965 the avant-gardist review
Új Symposion
(‘New Symposion’) was founded, Tolnai was among its first contributors and he la...
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